Olympus 150-400mm Zoom. Is it worth the price?
Editorial Note: This blog post is not an in-depth review of the new Olympus 150-400mm zoom. It’s simply a relatively short post comparing its price to similar lenses from Nikon and Canon. There are plenty of blog posts and YouTube videos explaining all the features of this lens. This is… Read More »
Olympus 150-400mm Release Date Announced
Olympus 150-400mm release date announced for late January 2021. Finally the availability of the lens I’ve been dreaming about. A lens that has a similar range to that of a full-frame camera using a 300-1000mm lens. Here’s the Olympus150-400mm official announcement. Changing wildlife photography as we know it This lens… Read More »
Comparing Sony, Olympus, Lumix Telephoto Sharpness
Editorial Note: I’ve amended this blog post due to an overriding interest in the fact I’m no longer a Lumix Ambassador. In all fairness to the folks at Panasonic, I’m still a very big fan of their equipment and the Ambassador news was taking away from the real reason for… Read More »
Olympus Releases New Lens Roadmap
The future of Micro Four Thirds is alive and well with two major announcements from Lumix and Olympus. Last week Lumix released major firmware updates for all their most current cameras. And yesterday Olympus released a new lens roadmap. The two lenses on the Olympus road map most interesting to… Read More »
The Telephoto Power of Micro Four Thirds
Full-frame camera hype There’s been a lot of press in the past four months about the excitement of full-frame cameras. Panasonic jumped in with a new fabulous full-frame system, the Lumix S1, and Lumix S1R. Nikon and Canon finally awoke from the dead and offered their versions as well. It’s… Read More »
Leica Magic With A Lumix Mount: The 200mm and 50-200mm Lenses
Leica magic with a Lumix mount—the 200mm and 50-200mm lenses have been part of a very exciting year for Panasonic and the Micro Four Thirds category of cameras. I had to check Mylio to see exactly when I first started shooting these two new Leica lenses, and I was surprised to… Read More »
Adventures in Conservation and New Leica Lenses
Mark and Dan Discuss Leica Lenses This past weekend Mark Toal, Panasonic Lumix rep extraordinaire, stopped into Bozeman to discuss Adventures in Conservation and two new Leica lenses. Adventures in Conservation was the program I did for Bozeman Camera at the Museum of the Rockies on Friday, May 11th. I’ll share… Read More »
Panasonic Lumix Leica 50-200mm Official Release Date
Well that didn’t take long. Panasonic has been doing a really great job of keeping special announcements, products, etc. under wraps. We’ve known for quite some time that they were considering a Leica 50-200mm lens. But until today we had no idea when, or if, it was actually going to… Read More »
Leica 50-200mm Coming Soon?
Back in September 2016 I wrote about Panasonic announcing several new products. One of those new products was a Leica 50-200mm F/2.8-4.0 zoom which I was ecstatic about. Unfortunately it’s been a long time in coming, but the folks over at 43Rumors are suggesting our wait may be nearly over.… Read More »
Two Great Travel Lenses: Leica 12-60mm & Olympus 12-100mm
Two great travel lenses Leica 12-60mm and Olympus 12-100mm to foil carry-on police As traveling photographers, we’ve all been there. “There” is the point in the line where the gate agent looks you straight in the eye and asks you to place your carry-on in the make-believe overhead bin that… Read More »